American science takes the streets to protest against Trump | Science

A cry “in defense of science” extended this Friday by dozens of American cities in as many demonstrations against Donald Trump’s policies. Thousands of people took to the streets to oppose the cuts and mass layoffs of officials carried out by Elon Musk and their government efficiency department (Doge) in numerous federal agencies; to the consequences of attacks on inclusive policies in research and health; or to the appointment at the head of the Department of Health of Robert F.

Kennedy Jr., recognized skeptic with vaccines, while a measles outbreak has been charged in Texas for its first (and second) deadly victim in a decade. Against the risk, in short, that the conservative agenda of the new president affects the scientific leadership of the United States, the fight against climate change and the success in the prevention of the next pandemic. The main event was held in Washington, at the foot of the monument to Lincoln, on one of those sunny days of early March that invite us to think about the possibility of spring. The attendees carried ingenious banners, like one who was heading to Trump’s voters who decided on the Republican for economic reasons (“you wanted cheap eggs and achieved measles”) or others who asked for the dismissal of Musk or denounced that “Maha Mata” – in reference to the variation of the Trumpist slogan who asks that the United States asks the United States to be healthy again. They chanted hymnos protest as the traditional anti -esclavist song We Shall Not Be Moved, whose lyrics adapted for the occasion. After the stand, an illustrious group of speakers, which included personalities such as the doctor and author Supervents Atul Gawande, the famous scientific disseminator Bill Nye, postdoctoral students or survivors of children’s cancer, such as Emily Whitehead, a young student of a young student of 20 years of photography and English at the University of Pennsylvania, which was diagnosed at the six acute lymphoblastic leukemia. “If he could not participate in a clinical trial, of which they are now threatened, he would not be alive, nor would he have been free of cancer 13,” Whitehead told those present. New York Manifestation against Trump’s policies in science, this Friday, February 7. Sarah Yenel (EFE) There was also a large representation of Democratic politicians, from congressmen Bill Foster and Jamie Rankin to Senator Chris van Hollen (Maryland), who said that “the attacks on science have nothing to do with government efficiency” and added to the common defense of the integrity of the National Institute of Health (NIH) Atmospheric (NOA), the last agency to join the list of victims of Musk, on which the closure of its three federal buildings plans. “Who occurs to him?” Van Holen wondered. “NOAA are our eyes and ears when it comes to preventing extreme weather events. They are putting the ability to take refuge and protect us from natural catastrophes. ”Those politicians addressed at the beginning of their applauded intervention. He asked them to “do something” to “defend the Constitution.” “His first article says that one of the obligations of Congress is to promote the progress of science and useful arts”, which is an “expression of the seventeenth century,” Nye said, “which today would be equivalent to engineering. “Science is what has made our country great, a world leader in innovation. If the United States wants to send in the world, science cannot be suppressed, ”he said. A dangerous game ―author, among others, of a successful book on how to face death – urged, on the other hand, about the need to“ denounce the dangerous game to which (Trump and his own) are playing ”. “They distort and ridicule the work of thousands of scientists, saying, for example, that to hormone and transgenic research in mice is carried out to make those mice transgender, or laugh protesters to take the streets this Friday, many of whom were scientists, doctors or nursing staff, as well as patients, are stopped in court, because their legality is questioned. Whatever its judicial future, the message leaves no doubt: federal support for science in Trump 2.0 Elon Musk’s network X, in search of information about places where to show its opposition to the policies of the new government. By finding nothing, he wrote: “Fuck, I am planning a scientific defense protest in DC (Washington).” The result of those plans collects in a certain sense the witness of the march in favor of science, held at the beginning of Trump’s first mandate, on April 22, 2017, in the US capital and in more than 600 cities around the world. considered of bipartisan interest for decades. The image of scientists between certain conservative sectors deteriorated in the United States during the pandemic, already measure that debates about confinements, the origin of the virus, vaccines or closures of schools were intensified. As a consequence of that, the investigation became this country in another front of the Cultural War. Critics with the science policies of the Trump administration to science denounce that they have an ideological motivation. A White House spokesman spread a statement on Friday that said that protesters should be “delighted” that Trump’s initiative to divert “billions of dollars of spending” of projects oriented to diversity will release more money for “legitimate scientific research”. (Tagstotranslate) Science

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